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The Company

Dubbed an "open-source unicorn" by Forbes, they’ve received on $200m in total funding - with Sequoia Capital, Benchmark, and Index Ventures recently investing a combined $125 million in Series D financing.

They offer a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams. Its key strength is its ability to make high volume data available as a real-time stream for consumption in systems with very different requirements.

The Role

They’re on the lookout for an experienced platform engineer to be based out the Austin, TX office to work on high impact security aspects of their Platform (platform built in Java, with a little Scala mixed in as well as Go), as many of the world’s largest banks, insurance, and telecom companies use their product. Specific role title is Distributed Systems Security Engineer.

Effectively needs to a be strong full-stack engineer who has used distributed systems, with skills in security, and knows how data fits together

On Offer

Opportunity to get equity with a company working on a potentially generational project (like how VMware, Docker, Kubernetes, Hadoop have been adopted), with high impact / high visibility work. Alongside said equity, they offer; competitive cash comp; full benefits, unlimited PTO, and various other perks.